Pros And Cons Of Cognitive Enhancement

The philosophical work of Ingmar Persson and Julian Savulescu believe that it has been proven that human beings are greatly capable of acting immoral and committing immoral activities. Persson and Savulescu believe that through the massive advancements of science and technology, it has become easier to create biological, nuclear and chemical weapons of mass destruction. The expansion of these technological capabilities risks danger of these technologies falling into the hands of certain deranged individuals. Proponents of moral enhancement believe in cognitive enhancement via the means of drugs, implants or biological or genetic intervention because the advancement of science and technology are becoming so advanced that there is a growing increased …show more content…
Transhumanists are in favour of the idea of moral and cognitive enhancement, and believe that human nature has the capabilities of improving itself through the use of applied science and other methods. Transhumanists believe that enhancement capabilities give humans the opportunity to expand their lifespans, more control over one’s feelings and mental state, and to allow the advancement of physical and intellectual capabilities. Transhumanists believe that the accessibility to human enhancing technologies should be made widely available for human usage, and which technologies they should be able to give to their offspring’s. Transhumanists believe that while there are possible dangers with the technology, that it is important to embrace the usage of human enhancing technologies. Ultimately human enhancement will allow a much longer human lifespan, and stronger intellectual capabilities than ever …show more content…
It is very realistic to that embracing cognitive enhancement could greatly speed up human intellect, and change the way that humans acquire knowledge. It has been suggested that enhanced mathematicians and scientists could have been able to discover a much more advanced state of of knowledge than unenhanced mathematicians and scientists have ever been able to reach. While enhanced scholars would have been able to reach this stage at one point, it does not mean that unenhanced scientists would never be able to reach this state, however much slower. The question cognitive enhancement brings, is whether it is desirable to speed up the knowledge gaining process, that would have taken humans longer to determine in order to advance with scientific knowledge? It is possible that acquiring knowledge too quickly could potentially endanger putting mankind in danger of creating technology that could be a potential nuclear weapon. To eliminate the threat of placing technological power in the hands of the wrong people, it would be necessary to combine any cognitive enhancement with moral enhancement. The prospect of quickly expanding our scientific knowledge would be dangerous, because we are only still in the process of acquiring it. If humans decide to reach maximum knowledge too quickly, it may risk killing